This chapter presents an overview of how far, in what ways and how effectively learning
difficulties has been theorised within disability studies. It provides an examination of the …

This special issue of BJLD is dedicated to people with the label of 'learning difficulties'(aka
'learning disabilities','intellectual impairment','development disability', formerly 'mental …

This chapter examines some of the discussions about disability which have been taking
place within the disabled people's movement and considers the relevance of these ideas to …

This article considers the contributions of people with learning difficulties to an
undergraduate degree programme in Learning Disability Studies at the University of …

Page 1 Dan Goodley Geert Van Hove (Eds.) Another Disability Studies Reader? Garant
People with Learning Difficulties and a Disabling World Page 2 Page 3 ANOTHER DISABILITY …

Critical researchers enter into an investigation with their assumptions on the table, so no one
is confused concerning the epistemological and political baggage they bring with them to …

Heightened debate is a sign of a political and intellectual movement's maturity. Major points
of contention occur in disability studies, within and across the areas of academia and …

BACKGROUND Over the last two decades disability activists have established the social
model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy …

I want to explore in this article the ways in which people with a learning difficulty are
constructed in a number of ways as disabled, as limited, as being special, and so on …

This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability,
focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has …